[Openswan Users] using True RNG with openswan, how?

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Mon May 12 16:56:31 EDT 2008


On Mon, 12 May 2008, Omer Adil wrote:

> I am new to openswan and I am interested to use a hardware random
> number generator (RNG) with openswan 2.4.x.
> What is the best and the easiest way to use a hardware RNG with
> openswan and how I can interface it?
> Any recommendation is highly welcomed.
> Any help would be very much appreciated.

Use rngd to feed it to the kernel, and let openswan use /dev/random
like it always does.

Paul
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